ing of Canton harbor is the only important
event of the week in the Franco-Chinese struggle.

Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is practicing medicine in Jamestown, N.
Y. The physicians of that city have made a fruitless attempt to secure
his indictment by the grand jury as an illegal practitioner.

The French press are advocating an organized effort against the
prohibition of the importation of American pork. The prohibition, it is
estimated, will cost the French ports 100,000,000 francs, and deprive
the working people, besides, of cheap and wholesome food.

Articles of incorporation were filed at Springfield, Saturday, for the
building of a railroad from a point within five miles of the northeast
corner of Cook county to a point in Rock Island county, on the
Mississippi, opposite Muscatine, Iowa. The capital is $3,000,000, and
among the incorporators are Joseph R. Reynolds, Edgar Terhune Holden,
and Josiah Browne, of Chicago.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Senator Edmunds has again been chosen president pro tem of the Senate.
Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, declares himself too ill to perform the
duties of the position. On Monday nearly 500 bills were introduced into
the House. The total number of bills introduced and referred since the
session began, reaches nearly 4,000. There are many important measures
among them, while there are more that are of somewhat doubtful import,
especially those which look to a still further increase of the pension
appropriations. There are bills for the regulation of banks and banking;
several new bankruptcy acts; one reducing the fees on patents as
follows: The fee upon filing original application for a patent is
reduced from $15 to $5. The minimum fees for a design patent shall be $5
instead of $10 and the minimum term for which granted shall be five
instead of three and a half years; a bill to reorganize the infantry
branch of the army; for reorganizing and increasing the navy; several to
revise the tariff; to look after the forfeiture of land grants; to
restrict importation of foreign adulterated goods; to stamp out
contagious diseases of animals; to establish a department of commerce;
to repeal the act prohibiting ex-confederate officers from serving in
the United States army; to relieve Fitz John Porter, and hundreds of
bills for the relief or benefit of individuals in different parts of the
country. There are also bills for the regulation of transportation
companies and for the establi